The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


There is a negro preacher at Craw-
ford, Ga, who has no legs, being
hauled around town in wagon by two
goats.
Orchard Hill, Ca. has a peach or
chard of seven hundred and ninety
acres and comprising eighty-four thou T
sand trees.
The Italians have a game called
s'pallone," which is played with a
big, light ball and heavy gloves; and
the Southern Germans play game
called ''kegelspiel,' something like /
skittles, and are also fond of target
shooting and wrestling. Chicago Nel0s.
Sometimes man gives most ex-
pressive definition of thing without |
perceiving himself the full significance
of his words. It was so with poor
old colored man who came to Wayland
Seminary, saying that no one had been
to his part of the country to ''widen
out the colored people" and so he had
come to the seminary for help.-GosPel
Age.
"A Boston newsdealer on Sunday
sits outside his closed doors surrounded
by full stock of Sunday newspapers.
Asked what he meant, he said:
''Keepin' within the law" So he was:
| By locking the door of his shop and
closing the shutters the law was COM
piled with according to the interpreta-
ton of those who have the enforcement
of it.
Statistics show that England loses
nearly four millions of dollars every
year by the depredations of sparrows.
| AS pets these birds are decided fail
ures, but as pests they are marked
success. There are innumerable hordes
of them in this country, all of which
are descended from batch of thirteen,
let loose some years ago in the parks OF
Philadelphia.
California must literally be the
land flowing with honey, if not with
milk, for an apiarist in the southern
part of the State who failed to get
even two and half cents per pound
for fine white sage extracted honey is
reported to have begun feeding it to
his swine! Another, who has large
stock without commercial value, mikes
it with his cows feed.
Many years ago party of young
pioneers were smoking their evening
pipes in cabin in the then far West
when one of them, addressing feeble
minded protege, said: ''Joe, go ovel
J : to Mr. Robinson's and tell him, danE
him, to send back my axe. Joe re
3 turned in half an hour and plaintivel.
s made inquiry: "Mr. Smith, you tol'
= me to 90 to Mr.. Robinson and tell him
dang him-What?
i As a means of producing an artiti
Q cial sea atmosphere in houses, the us
. has been suggested of a solution o
h peroxide of hydrogen, containing on
n per cent. of ozonic ether, iodine t
! saturation, and $50 per cent. OF Sc
:, water. The solution, placed in steal
ID or hand spray diffuser, can be diffuse
If in the finest of spray in q room at til
v rate of two fluid ounces in quarter
g an hour, and is said to be good pur
fer and powerful disinfectant.
81 Range riders in Bear Lake Count.
I'd Eastern Idaho, state that cattle, esp
IN cially calves and colts born on Il
u u range near the timber line in the we
mountains, are being destroyed by ii
G. large gray timber wolves, that con
as from their lair and carry them o.
Large packs of them are seen and the
are very bold and determined. 1t is
II II species of wolf that is stranger to Il
.. locality and seems to have emigrat'
he there last winter Chicago Times.
ce "A firm of Birmingham music des
~ ers was lately required to tune an
nv gan to accord with piano in Mosele
800 It was impracticable to bring the
he strunents together, but a happy pl'
re was at length stumbled upon. A no
h9 r9 of the piano was struck in front OF Il
an ephone, and the sound was so acc
vn ratelv transmitted to the distant tun
'31 that he was soon able to accOmpli
IN his task, and the organ was sent
OF of season for it's intended use with {
68. piano in a concert.-ArbGnsGo Trc
ice eLer.
Die "A traveller through Mexico saw
1T, a mountain station tall, bulky Me
ed ed can with gigantic frame and ba
3D. face, who would have excited admit
or; ton anywhere. He wore an enormc
40; hat, hung with at least one hundI
pr. RI dollars worth of silver bullion, "
sS armed with a revolver and a rifle, a
DO3 had down each seam of his trousers
row of skulls and crossbones in 50
silver, each skull as big as doll
''-'' Everybody enjoyed the appearance
one this splendid person, and no one M
ian, than he himself.